| 单词 | porous |
| 释义 | porous (once / 3413 pages) adj If something is full of tiny holes or openings, you can describe it as porous. A sponge is porous, and if the border between countries is open for anyone to cross easily, it too can be called porous. You can see the word pore — meaning "a tiny opening" — in porous. When potters make a mug, they use special glazes to seal the porous clay, which otherwise would absorb the liquid you put in the mug. This meaning has expanded so porous can describe any barrier that allows easy passage in and out, like the porous border between two countries that allows residents to move easily between them. WORD FAMILYporous: nonporous, porosity, porousness+/pore: pored, pores, poring, porous/porosity: porosities USAGE EXAMPLESIt was nowhere to be found against the Rockets, who shredded the Clippers’ porous defense to shoot 55.6% from the field. Los Angeles Times(Dec 31, 2016) Some Russian media pointed at lax security at Chkalovsky outside Moscow where the plane was based, saying that it’s quite porous compared to civilian airports. Time(Dec 26, 2016) Turkey was an early backer of the rebels, allowing them to retreat and rearm across its largely porous border. Seattle Times(Dec 26, 2016) 1adj full of pores or vessels or holes Syn|Ant poriferous porose forming a continuous series of pores nonporous not porous; especially not having vessels that appear as pores 2adj allowing passage in and out our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous Syn holey leaky permitting the unwanted passage of fluids or gases 3adj able to absorb fluids the partly porous walls of our digestive system compacting the soil to make it less porous Syn permeable allowing fluids or gases to pass or diffuse through |
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